While the ACA's insurance is expensive for people who don't get subsidies, the health law's markets and its expansion of Medicaid to more low-income people began to remove the link between your job and your healthcare.
"There's a growing consensus in this country that Americans believe that everyone has a right to healthcare," she said."I would say that's a relatively new concept."This was the decade when healthcare went from paper to digital, enabling new innovations by everyone from Big Pharma to. Many doctors love to hate electronic medical records, and to be sure, the unwieldy systems have plenty of shortcomings.
Obamacare wasn't just about coverage. The health law created the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, fueling the move to value-based care, or paying doctors and hospitals for making patients healthy, rather than for each visit or surgery. While many of center's experiments focus on the Medicare health program for the elderly, private insurers are taking similar approaches across the US.
And while Obamacare helped fuel the move to value, the Trump administration has continued to push the healthcare system in the same direction.